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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Snow Queens and OGOM Research
We’re aiming to make the OGOM website a great resource for scholars of the Gothic and fantastic, students, and people in general who are interested in these topics. One of the things we’re trying out is a repository of all … Continue reading
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Fairy Tale School
We’ve just been contacted by Brittany Warman, who is a fan of the OGOM website and, with her friend and colleague, has created an online course on fairytale on their lovely website, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. … Continue reading
Gargoyles and Temptation
This is a fascinating piece from the always-wonderful Folklore Thursday on the history and significance of gargoyles. It begins and ends with the presence of these ambivalent creatures in popular culture, from a childhood memory of the animated series Gargoyles … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged architecture, Folklore, gargoyles, Holly Black, Paranormal romance
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Book: Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses
This new book by Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses, looks marvellous. It covers Angela Carter and vampires–two topics that always whet my OGOM appetite–but many other aspects of contemporary women’s Gothic too. I really … Continue reading
CFP: Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema, University of Kent, 25-26 May 2017
A call for papers for an exciting conference, Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema, at the University of Kent in May 2017. The keynote speaker is MMU’s brilliant Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. This conference seeks … Continue reading
Whitby, Goth, and Steampunk
An incisive article here by Claire Nally of Northumbria University on the proliferation of subcultures around Goth and steampunk, focusing on Whitby (and a nod to OGOM collaborator Catherine Spooner’s work).
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Tagged Dracula, Genre, Goth subculture, music, neo-Victorian, steampunk, subcultures, Whitby
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Angela Carter and the Gothic
Once more, something on Angela Carter. This is an excellent essay by Greg Buzwell on the interplay between Gothic and fairy tale in Carter’s The Bloody Chamber from the British Library’s Discovering Literature pages (a fabulous resource). Buzwell discusses such … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Charles Perrault, fairy tale, Gothic, Poe, Sade
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Decadent fairy tales
Here’s a review of a fascinating-looking new collection of fairy tales by French decadent writers around the fin de siècle. The editors say Nearly a century before postmodern fairytales by Margaret Atwood, AS Byatt, Angela Carter and others upend fairytale … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, aestheticism, Angela Carter, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, decadence, Fairy tales
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Post-millennial Vampires
Posted slightly late for Hallowe’en, but this essay by Prof. Dale Townshend on the contemporary, post-millennial vampire and what it might stand for is hugely insightful.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged consumerism, nationalism, neoliberalism, otherness, post-millennial, Vampires, xenophobia
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Grimms’ Tales — Illustrations
A fabulous collection here of illustrations to Grimms’ fairy tales by the likes of Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak, David Hockney, and others.